Net loss of 50 points, net loss of 54 points! A good hand of cards was forcibly broken, the four giants should be disbanded as soon as possible

This season's NBA playoffs reached the division finals. Four young teams eliminated many traditional giants. The Thunder fought hard to tie the seventh to send the Nuggets home; the Timberwolves swept the Lakers and the Warriors in succession. Of course, luck did account for a large part of it. The Lakers did not have a center, and were caught by the Timberwolves inside and hit hard. Curry was injured and the Warriors became vulnerable. The Eastern Cavaliers and the Celtics were eliminated, and the two bosses, Mitchell and Tatum, also suffered injuries, especially Tatum's Achilles tendon ruptured, and the Celtics disbanded the Big Five in the offseason + rebuilding next year is a foregone conclusion. As two dark horses, the Pacers and the Knicks are indeed a bit surprised, especially the Pacers. Halliburton is like a magician, leading the team to perform miracles!

Simplely put, if you want to reach the end of the playoffs, you must have to rotate the lineup to maintain healthy + sufficient lineup depth. The Nuggets are a good counterexample. They tied the Clippers in the first round, and tied the second round with the championship-winning Thunder. The team had a total of 6 players, including Murray, Gordon, Westbrook and Porter Jr., who persisted with injuries. If there were more than 2 players, the result might be completely different. Zhu Meng Green has also said many times that if you want to win the championship in the end, the team's sixth person + seventh person must be better than the opponent. Warriors Poole + Payton + Looney in 22 years, Bruce Brown and Jeff Green in 23 years, and Horford + Prichard + Hauser in 24 years, are all good examples. But there is a team that has a good hand but is forcibly beaten!

The four teams that reached the division final this season, only one team lost points on the court, played 308 minutes in the playoffs, lost 10.5 points in a hundred rounds, and had a cumulative net loss of up to 50 points. They are the Knicks, the Brunson + Bridges + Anunobi + Hart + Towns whom Thibodeau trusts extremely. But if at least one player is replaced by McBride or Mitchell Robinson, the Knicks can beat their opponents by 21.5 points in a hundred rounds, and a total of 54 points in a net victory over their opponents! Secondly, since entering the playoffs, the On-Off value of the Knicks' main rotation player is also shocking: Bridges-28.6, Anunobi-17.4, Hart-0.5, Towns-8.5, Brunson+0.3. And McBride +17.6, Miro +19.2!

All data can be found in "BR". In the words of columnist Quinn, Thibodeau's way of employing people is simply unreasonable. The main reason for the poor performance in the starting lineup is that the five starting teams played a total of 940 minutes in the regular season. Any other five-player combination in the league has the most playing time less than half of the Knicks. The five starting teams including the Big Four are too tired! To give a few examples, in the G1 of the Eastern Conference Finals, the Knicks substitute connection stage (when not all five starters were present) had a net victory of 13 points, and the starter lost 16 points; the G2 Knicks substitute connection stage won 21 points and the starter lost 26 points. It can be understood more intuitively as: if McBride + Mitchell Robinson + Payne plays 5 more minutes in each game, the Knicks will lead the Pacers 2-0!

Knowing that the starting lineup is exhausted, the team needs catfish to break the balance, why is Thibodeau just stubborn and unwilling to give more opportunities to the substitute? Many American media can't give answers to this question, but ESPN has a more sincere analysis: Thibodeau's past coaching methods prove that he would rather lose to someone he trusts than make any adjustments. More than a decade ago, the league emphasized confrontation, not so many three-point shooting, and the starting lineup is indeed more trustworthy. But more than ten years later, the offense and defense pace was too fast. Over the whole season, Bridges + Anunoby + Hart did not replace him, Brunson insisted with an ankle injury, Towns's frame protection was a shortcoming, and the Knicks were sealed by coach Thibodeau!

The Knicks should not have advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals, but the Celtics. The Celtics fell down due to a ruptured Achilles tendon, and the team collapsed instantly. Judging from the playoffs in the past two seasons, the Knicks have been in the second round, and without exception, the starting lineup has been struggling from the regular season to the second round of the playoffs, with overdrawn physical fitness and serious decline in efficiency, and the overall team collapsed! The Knicks' best five-man performance in the playoffs: McBride + Brunson + Bridges + Anunoby + Mitchell Robinson, who can beat the opponent 39 points in a hundred rounds, but Thibodeau only gave this lineup 34 minutes of playing time! If Bridges is replaced by Hart, he can beat his opponent 34.7 points in a hundred rounds, but this lineup only has 37 minutes of playing time! There is really nothing to say about a good hand of cards that were forcibly beaten. Thibodeau renewed his contract with the Knicks in advance last year's offseason, and the top three in the regular season guaranteed division. The playoffs reached the division final this year, so the team could not fire him in advance. But for the four giants Brunson + Downs + Anunoby + Bridges, playing for Thibodeau is indeed a torment, like being in a stubborn position, the smaller the space to fit in the future, and there is no hope of winning the championship. The four giants should have disbanded as soon as possible. In the past few years, Thibodeau has hurt many stars, including Ross and Yao Ming!